April :DIGITAL occupies its first
built-for-remote services facility in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. The building was designed with
redundant power supplies, battery backup,
emergency generators and multiple telephone lines
to assure the highest level of customer service
availability.

September:
Introduction of the VAXmate, a
networked personal computer combining the
resources of the VAX-VMS and MS-DOS operating
systems.

November:
DIGITAL introduces Local Area VAXcluster systems, extending distributed
computing to the work group.